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Pitchers of Beer - The Story of the Seattle Rainiers (Paperback)
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Pitchers of Beer - The Story of the Seattle Rainiers (Paperback)
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List price R628
Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
You Save R57 (9%)
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In 1937, when local beer baron Emil Sick stepped in, the Seattle
Indians were a struggling minor-league baseball team teetering on
collapse. Moved to mix baseball and beer by his good friend and
fellow brewer, New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, Sick built a
new stadium and turned the team into a civic treasure. The Rainiers
(newly named after the beer) set attendance records and won Pacific
Coast League titles in 1939, '40, '41, '51, and '55. The story of
the Rainiers spans the end of the Great Depression, World War II,
the rise of the airline industry, and the incursion of Major League
Baseball into the West Coast (which ultimately spelled doom for the
club). It features well-known personalities such as Babe Ruth, who
made an unsuccessful bid to manage the team; Hall of Famer Rogers
Hornsby, who did manage the Rainiers; and Ron Santo, a batboy who
went on to a storied career with the Chicago Cubs. Mixing
traditional baseball lore with tales of mischief, "Pitchers of
Beer" relates the twenty-seven-year history of the Rainiers, a
history that captures the timeless appeal of baseball, along with
the local moments and minutiae that bring the game home to each and
every one of us. "Pitchers of Beer" showcases fifty-two photographs
of players and memorabilia from noted Northwest baseball collector
David Eskenazi.
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